and fruit was taken from specimens communicated by 
Th. Girdlestone, Esq., of Sunningdale, a very accom- 
plished cultivator and student of Roses; the plant itself 
formed a magnificent object in his garden, covering an 
area of eighteen by thirteen feet, on a sheltered wall, 
clothed with snow-white fragrant flowers in June, and 
fruiting in July. A view of the plant is given in the 
‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle” (1887, vol. ii., opposite p. 659). 
Mr. Nicholson informs me that it is used as a stock on 
which to work hybrid, perpetual, and other roses.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Vertical section through young fruit; 2, carpel; 3, seed :—all 
enlarged, 
